“We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.” WorldYearsMayTwoDifferentEyeFilmPhotographyHundredDecades Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable.” YearsAgePaintingPhotographyHundredYears AgoPhotographerRidiculousPainterThis DayImitationAbstractionImitatingLaughable Author:Berenice Abbott
“If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.” IfsWayYearsHas BeensTwoMightBornPhotographyHundredYears AgoSculptureMight Have BeenSculptors Book:Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment Source: Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment
“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.” ThinkingYearsReasonRealityLastsFilmCoursesAcceptingTechnologyComputerPhotographyHundredFiftyPhotography And FilmComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich